Hair waving and curling device



March 1, 1932.

H. C. FRASER ET AL HAIR WAVING AND CURLING DEVICE Filed Aug. 16, 1930 W PM Patented Mar. 1, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HANNAH CHISHOLNI FRASER AND MARY ANN FRASER, OII' BOUBNEHOUTH, HANTB,

ENGLAND HAIR WAV'ING AND C'UBLING DEVICE Application filed August 16, 1980, Serial No. 475,822, and in Great lrltain August 28, 1928.

This invention relates .to rubber or like hair wavers or curlers of the kind having an eye or equivalent at one end of a body ortion through which the other end of said ody portion is adapted to pass after flexing or bowing the device.

The chief object of the present invention is to provide an improved waver or curler of the kind aforesaid in which one end of the body portion can easily be passed, without forcing, through the eye or equivalent at the other end of the body portion, and when so passed is easily retained in this position.

By way of example some constructional forms of wavers or curlers embodyin the beforementioned and other features 0 our invention are illustrated on the accompanying drawings to which reference will now be made and whereon:

Figs. 1 to 4 illustrate one form, Fig. 1 being a side view of the device, Fig. 2 a face view Fig. 3 a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 1 and V ig. 4 a section of line 4-4 of said figure; 7 I

Figs. 5 and 6 are face views of a second and third form respectively;

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of another construction;

Figs. 8 and 9 are respectively a face View and a side view of another form; and

Fig. 10 is a face view of still another form.

The same references indicate similar parts throughout the severalffigures.

Referring first more particularly to Figs. -1 to 4, the..device there shown consists of a body portion or strip 1 of rubber or other flexible material having at one end an enlarged head 2 constituting a finger grip and shaped to provide shoulders 5, 5. Said head has an eye or aperture 6a. The other end of the strip 1 is bulged laterally to form an enlarged substantially elliptical tongue-piece 8a of the same thickness as the body portion, this tongue-piece having an elliptical opening 9 to make it of cross .section smaller than the area of the aperture 6a, and readily contractile to a width at least as small as'that of the aperture So; so that it can be easily passed through the eye 6a in the head 2 when the strip is bowed, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1. The pointed end 8 of the tongue-piece readily enters the eye and the whole of the tongue-piece can thereafter he pushed through the eye, the walls .of the tongue-piece gradually contracting under the slight pressure that need be exerted. When this is done the enlarged tonguepiece expands to a width greater than that of the aperture 6a, exerts a yielding ressure on the side walls of the eye and toget er with the reflex action of the bowed strip locks the device in the doubled position, but so that it can be instantly unlocked at the will of the operator.

As shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the strip is elliptical in section and slitted, at 7, for a portion of its length to enable the device to be used as a curler as well as a waver, the walls of the slit being rounded off as indicated in Fig. 4.

To use the device as a waver it is held by the head or finger gri 2 against the person s head near the tress 0 hair to be waved and the tress is then coiled about the strip 1. The initial coil abuts against the shoulders 5, 5 which prevent it slipping off the device. When the tress has been coiled on the strip 1 the end 8a of the latter remote from the head 2 is doubled over and simply pushed through the eye 6a whereupon the strip is automaticall retained.

0 use the device as a curler the ends of the hairs to be curled are first threaded through the slit 7 which can be easily opened for the purpose, and, then, after winding up the device towards the persons head, the strip is bowed and looked as before.

The device represented by Fig. 5 is simi- 'lar to that of Figs. 1 to 4 exce t that the head aperture 6a therein is elliptical.

Likewise the device of Fig. 6 is similar to that of Fig. 5 but in this form the head 2 and its aperture 6a are both substantially elliptical, and the enlarged elliptical tonguepiece 80' is obtained by making a slit 9 in the plain end of the strip 1 and inserting a cushion 10 as shown.

Fig.7 shows a construction having a ring 6 pivotally connected to the strip 1 at a dis- 2 is somewhat differently s aped and the 9 tance from one end so as to leave a finger grip 2a beyond the ring. When the device is gri ped in the fingers the ring can be retained in the osition shown to serve as an abutment during the coilin of the hair. After coiling, the stri 1 is bowed and the tongue-piece 8a threa ed through the ring whereupon it is locked in the manner already described.

In the construction according to Figs. 8 and 9, the ring 6 is pivoted at one extreme end of the strip 1 and it will be apparent that, during the application of the device said ring may be held in any of the three positions indicated in Fig. 9.

, The device illustrated by Fig. 10 has an oval head 2 with an oval eye or aperture 6a to receive the enlarged elliptical tongue-piece 8a. In this form the two ends of the device are similar except that the tongue end is pointed as shown.

Manifestly, modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the invention. The strip 1 may, for example, be oblong, square, round, oval or otherwise shaped in section. In some cases the slit 7 may be omitted and the device sold simply as a waver. Again, when an eye or aperture is provided in the head itself said aperture may be reinforced with a metal eyelet or equivalent. Side fins (as shown in Fig. 3) may be provided on-the strip to exert a frictional grip on the wall of the aperture in the rin or head.

eclaim:

1. A resilient hair wavingor curling device comprising a strip like body portion, an enlarged head with an aperture at one end of said body portion, a substantially elliptical tongue piece at the other end of said body portion, said tongue piece being of the same thickness as said body portion and having an opening therein which enables it to be contracted to a width at least as small as that of c said body portion, thereby enabling said tongue piece easily to be passed through said aperture for the head, but saidtongue piece normally expanding itself to a width greater than that of the body portion.

f 2; A resilient hair wavin or curling device comprising a strip like bo y portion, an en-- larged head with an aperture at one end of said body portion, a substantially elliptical tongue piece at the other end of said body portion, said tongue piece beingv of the same thickness as said body portion and having an opening therein which gives it a cross section smaller than the area of said aperture in the as claimed in claim 1, in which the opening in the tongue piece consists of a longitudinally extending slit having therein a cushion passage through the aperture in the head, and

the opening therein is substantially elliptical in shape.

5. A resilient hair wavin or curling device comprising a strip like b y portion, an enlarged head with an aperture at one end of said body portion, an apertured ring attached to said head, a substantially elliptical tongue piece at the other end of said body portion, said tongue piece terminating in a point to facilitate its passage through the aperture in the head and said tongue piece being of the same thickness as said body portion and having an opening therein which gives it a cross section smaller than the area of said aperture and enables it to be contracted to a width at least as small as that of the aperture, thereby enabling said tongue piece easily to be pushed through said aperture, said tongue piece normally expanding to a width greater than that of said aperture.

6. A resilient hair waving or curlin device as claimed in claim 5, having a nger piece on the head at the end thereof remote from said tongue piece.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures.

(Min) HANNAH CHISHOLM FRASER. (Miss) MARY ANN FRASER.

head and enables it to be contracted to a width 7 at least as small as that of they aperture, thereby enabling said tongue piece easily to be pushed throughsaid aperture, said tongue piece normally expanding to a width greater than'th'at, of said aperture.

3. A resilient hair waving or curling device 

